Woody Wonders

I'm a bit late with my blog this month as me and the lovely Mr Bob have had a mini-break in France.  I have to admit that I was looking forward to the trip with a mixture of both excitement and apprehension. It had been 26 months since we last stepped foot on French soil and the world is now a very different place.  We were unsure of what to expect, what documents we did or didn't need and how the French would now look upon us.  Let's be honest, the UK hasn't exactly put itself in a great light with Europe, or the rest of the world for that matter, over the last few years. I'm very pleased to say that everything went smoothly, we weren't thrown into jail for putting a cross in the wrong place on our forms and the French people were as welcoming as ever.  I suppose it does help that I can speak enough French to get by and not have to resort to shouting 'CHIPS' at the top of my voice - there's a story there, but I'll save it for another time. Anywa...

To the end of the year ... and beyond You don't need me to tell you that it's been a tough year, we all know that, the whole world knows that.  What I don't want to happen though, and I've mentioned this in a previous blog, is to start wishing time would speed up so the year can end.  We have to continue living in the moment.  I don't want to sound negative, that's not my style, but I do want to be realistic.  Things are not magically going to change on 1st January 2021.  We're going to be in this sh*tstorm for a long time yet and in order to deal with it, we have to acknowledge that and tackle things head on rather than bury our heads in the sand. What can we do to help ourselves?  Well, for a start, we can't control some of the things that will happen to us BUT we can control how we react to them.   This week's blog was intended to take a look back over the last quarter to see how we've done with our goals, so let's start there and do just...

March seems a very long time ago When I did my review of Q1 at the end of March, we'd only scraped the surface of what the impact of Covid would be and we were in our first week of lockdown.  We had no idea of what would happen, how quickly and the devastating effect it would have all across the world.  We've seen the absolute best of people but have also witnessed the worst.  There's been lots of not so good things but thankfully a whole heap of positives to take from the situation too. We've made it to the end of Q2 and we're half way through the year.  That means we have a whole other half to turn the ship around and end this year on a high.  What we've learnt over the past few months will help us to achieve just that.  We've become stronger, more resilient and achieved things we never believed were possible.  I've tried to remain as focused as ever and, as always, let's take a quick recap at the 6 areas I'm looking to improve this year and ho...

A lot has happened in the last 3 months  so it's time to reflect and look forward It feels like a lifetime ago since I wrote my blog in January about setting intentions for the year ahead, yet here we are at the end of Q1.  An awful lot of things have happened in the last 3 months which have affected all of us, the whole world, which is difficult to comprehend. My intentions for 2020 were to 'Be Bold, Be Brave, Be Better' .  Certainly over the last few weeks, these have kind of happened anyway as I've been forced into situations I've not had to face before.   As a recap, I set myself 6 key areas to focus on for this year. Blog Fit for It (my business) Nutrition Exercise French Skills So let's take a quick look to see how I've been getting on throughout Q1: Blog  - On the plus side, I've continued to be consistent in my weekly blog which is great.  I'm not progressing as fast as I'd like in terms of tryin...

Don't let your challenges become a mountain, tackle them whilst they're still molehills! I've felt completely overwhelmed this week, there's lots going on in my life right now and it seemed like all the balls I'd been juggling had come crashing down around me. It all came to a head on Thursday evening; I'd not completed half the things I wanted to at work, me and the lovely Mr Bob had still not decided on some big decisions for our new house and we needed to get things moving, I hadn't done any French practise, I'd not done the running mileage that I needed to do this week for my upcoming half marathon and I still had to complete my fitness planning for the next morning!  I felt like I was scrambling up the side of an icy mountain, getting so far and then sliding back down to the bottom.  It was time to flatten this mountain back down to a molehill. When faced with challenges, it often forces you to re-think the situation and ask the follo...

Another quarter, another year and a whole decade to review!! Boring and repetitive I know, but seriously, it doesn't feel like it's been a year since I sat down and thought about my goals for 2019.  Yet here we are, not only at the end of another quarter, another year but at the end of a decade, a whole decade of life experiences to review and learn from for the next decade - eek! So let's start off by reviewing Q4 and hopefully there's plenty of things you've been working on throughout the year and this quarter has been all about dotting the i's and crossing the t's.  As always, I'll kick things off by giving you an update on what my goals for 2019 were and how I've finished the year. Update on Woody's Goals Start a blog.   To be honest, I really wasn't sure about how this was going to go and I'm massively proud of the fact that I've managed to blog every week even whilst being on holiday.  I started the blog ...